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Promoting community well-being through the design of public open spaces is the focus of a new integrated research-teaching-service project in the Village of Monticello. Led by Dr. Kristín Thorleifsdóttir, an Assistant Professor with the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Department of Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the project aims to create more sustainable, livable, and resilient communities by bridging community engagement with education and research. In fact, the project is one of several community-based projects occurring in Green Coun...